2026-10-21 - Human Resources, Administration and Appointments Committee

00:00:00It's going to be all right. We're going to get started with the Human Resources Administration and Appointments Committee. Present is myself council person, APhA Council, president Napoli.

00:00:13And is Natalie on? Yeah. Perfect. All right. Could we start with Bill 76? Bill 76 amends the 2026 general fund budget to accommodate the upgrade of position 235012.

00:00:29Presently, a receptionist within the Human Resources Department and pay grade S5 to that of a constituent services specialist with the revised pay grade of S 11. This will entail the transfer of funds from between accounts within the Human Resources budget to cover costs associated with the increased salary for that position over the

00:00:47balance of the year. Does the administration have any comments? Thoughts? Just this went through the the reclassification committee. I believe it has a positive recommendation. Chairperson Napoli is part of that committee.

00:01:04You know, this is a necessary upgrade to a person to a position that serves a, you know, very important purpose in City Hall. And we're going to make it a constituent services specialist, which is sorely needed.

00:01:19We're going to, we're going to have software. This person will track constituent services. It's something we've all talked about. And we feel like we have a great person already here for the job. So we added this to her responsibilities. And I mean, I think it's very needed.

00:01:36Thank you. And I appreciate that this went through the process that we started going through. One of the questions, I know that it's a, it's a small change financially for this portion of the calendar year. Was this position already budgeted for 2027?

00:01:49Okay. Perfect. Yeah. Everything that we went through, the reclassification committee, we budgeted appropriately. Okay. I thought I saw that in there. I just wanted to confirm verbally. So okay with that, if there's nothing else, I would take a motion to move forward favorably.

00:02:12I need a motion to move. Sorry. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. All those in favor? Aye. Bill 77, bill 77, amend city Code,

00:02:30chapter 75. Pensions and retirement. Article three, police Pension Fund, section 75-30. Association membership, appointment and term and section 75-31 Association officers to authorize the mayor,

00:02:44city Comptroller and Finance Director to select designees to serve in their place on the police pension fund. This is I think this is self-explanatory. I am the mayor's designee to the pension boards,

00:03:00but I can't vote without this. The. We went through our. This because we became aware of this when, when, when, with the unfortunate passing of our comptroller recently, the comptroller wasn't actually able to designate a designee.

00:03:13And we had a vacancy there which started to cause quorum problems. So we're correcting the code and just making it work, making it actually fit what we do. The comptroller may or may not choose to have a designee.

00:03:26They may choose to come themselves. Okay. Any questions from the dais? Any questions from the public? My apologies. I didn't do the previous one. All right.

00:03:39I would like to actually add to this if possible. From a motion perspective. I still want to move this favorably, but I'd like to add the text to say that it's for the each of the three entities. So like it would be that the finance director or designee from the staff of the finance department or same thing would be from the staff of the mayor or from the staff of the

00:03:58city comptroller. That way we know that the designee is within the department, not just anyone in the in the city. So fine with us. I motion to move that forward. If I can. Okay I see. Oh no worries. All right.

00:04:15Is there a second for that? I'll second that. All those in favor? All those in favor? Aye. All right. Thank you. Bill 81, bill 81 amends article five, city Comptroller by removing language, assigning responsibility for preparing and

00:04:34reconciling all city accounts to the city comptroller in order to align the ordinance with the city's current practice and maintain a separation between the preparation of bank reconciliations and the Comptroller's independent review and oversight of those reconciliations.

00:04:49Thank you very much. Does the administration have any comments? No. This. This, I think, comes from the comptroller and the and the members of City Council. Yeah. All right. Any comments from the dais? Any comments from the public?

00:05:05All right. Can I get a motion? Seconded. I'll second the motion. All right. All those in favor? Aye aye aye. Thank you very much. Does the administration have any updates they'd like to provide since there's a bit of a brief.

00:05:19We have a few minutes before the next meeting. Just so we think City Council is doing an excellent job. We're big fans. And thank you. Thank you. Do I do have one question or I guess so. And I was hoping to ask Director Velazquez this, but I believe just more for for future we are going to be reviewing the PPM,

00:05:37the professional. Sorry, the personal forgetting the acronym now policy. Thank you. Thank you. Just refer to it. And so we're going to be doing that. And then we also are going to be hopefully in the not too distant future.

00:05:52Also looking at how the recommendations that were put forth from Duane Morris, how we're aligning with those from last year. So those two things are up to come. So with that, I don't have anything else. I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you.